modify

verb

Etymology: From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.

1. To change part of.

   “Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.”

2. To be or become modified.
3. To set bounds to; to moderate.
4. To qualify the meaning of.

   “There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive[…]”

   “Adjectives modify nouns.”